March's Birdwatch is out! Including reflections on two decades of Azores autumns, a look at why Wallcreeper hasn't appeared in Britain for 40 years, county listing in Sussex, the use of ringing to track diseases, a Common Pochard profile, plus lots more: bit.ly/42W7P0S

We've put Sutton Council on notice with a legal letter from Leigh Day to up its game on delivery at Beddington Farmlands nature reserve - ambitious targets for wildlife & habitats - committing to enforcement when delivery fails again - working financial guarantees to deliver

Helpful coverage from Inside Croydon of our legal letter from Leigh Day putting Sutton Council on notice about the need to deliver the promised nature reserve on Beddington Farmlands and secure quality public access insidecroydon.com/2025/03/17/wan…

Least sand showing well at Stilt pool , medmerry , West Sussex

The peninsula delivers again! A mad lunch break saw me connect with the first Least Sandpiper in Sussex for 30 years! Great start to the spring !

After nearly a month the Least Sandpiper at Medmerry, West Sussex has now moulted into a first-summer plumage . Selsey Birder Sussex Birding Sussex Ornithology BirdGuides

An excellent pelagic off Kuwait last week with up to six Short-tailed Shearwaters. More on the blog …teralfreybirdingnotebook.blogspot.com/2025/05/kuwait… BirdGuides

PALLAS’S REED BUNTING Fair Isle Bird Observatory!!!

Lesser Striped Swallow in Kuwait: a Western Palearctic first Peter Alfrey documents the stunning discovery of a regional first amid a desert sandstorm: bit.ly/4kstp2M

This video of the Porthgwarra Soft-plumaged Petrel by Michael McKee is absolutely immense!! Mind-blowing stuff. The commentary is brilliant too. Maybe in the next few weeks off Loop 🤞🏻michaelmckee.co.uk/videos/video.a…

Great to get these two together in the same trap last night , Striped Hawkmoth and Clifden Nonpariel ,Sidlesham , VC13 Migrant Lepidoptera

Back in Bulgaria working on our holiday wildlife plot. This cracking juvenile Montagu’s Harrier was nearby . More on the blog : …teralfreybirdingnotebook.blogspot.com/?m=0

SIBERIAN THRUSH at Loch of Asta, Shetland. A dreambird!

Another Bulgarian rarity found on my last day of a recent trip - Caspian Stonechat , S.m.hemprechii. Only a few previous national records . Great little trip .

After HOURS of searched, finally found a Yellow-Browed Warbler on the Selsey Peninsula this morning with Peter Alfrey at the ever rare looking East Head, West Wittering! Pallas’s next ! Selsey Birder

After to presumed Pallid Swifts were seen at the Selsey Birder Bill yesterday, this morning we all joked about seeing one today, then at 8AM I scanned behind us and picked this up! 1/3